Corrupt Kingdom

A few days passed in relative calm. Daedalus had gotten to know most of the women however a few seemed to still be traumatized by the previous events. They where now waiting outside the gates of the kingdom, waiting to be let inside.

While they waited Daedalus decided to spread his divine sense and observe the kingdom. If it where to be described by himself it would be considered simply old fashion and hardly liveable. If Richard described it he would simply say 'Medieval'.

The house walls where made out of a cheap and flimsy plaster material while the frame was a rough mixture of wood and stone. Daedalus could only sigh at the lack of craftsmanship, he was even half tempted to just rebuild everything himself. Of course as an emperor he could go and do that unless he took over this kingdom.

After looking at the roughly made houses Daedalus the turned his attention to the inner city. To his dismay the inner city was filled with well built houses and even a few slaves being dragged around. Daedalus could only feel disgusted at this behaviour.

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Before he could continue to think on that matter he was interrupted by a voice saying "Next." in a disinterested tone. Daedalus pulled the carriage up slightly further until he stopped just in front of the gate guard. The gate guard sighed and said "So what do you have in your carriage? Product or slaves?"

Daedalus had an annoyed look on his face at the mere mention of slaves but replied "Neither, I am just helping these ladies out."

Opening the curtain behind him the guard could see the women Daedalus had saved and nodded curtly to them before turning to Daedalus once more and saying "You may enter, just don't cause any trouble. Next"

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With the trip finished Daedalus asked the women where the guild hall of this city was. Aria, the ever talkative woman, guided him through street after street until they reached the inner city gates. Daedalus then asked "Why is the guild hall within the inner city, doesn't it cost money to just get in there?"

Aria and a few other woman sighed at this and said "Yes, they made it that way so that you would need to pay to even do the simplest of quests. So, unless your a noble, you have to pay tens of gold to even enter, and that's under surveillance from the guards who will stop you from taking the well paying quests."

At hearing this Daedalus realised just how corrupt this kingdom was. That is when he decided, he wouldn't be simply taking over, he was going to completely kill off the monarchy and destroy all of the corrupt noble families. Sadly he knew he would likely have trouble doing that with his missing arm, he would have to return home shortly to get it fixed.

So that's is what he decided to do after dropping off the women. Before he left them at the guild hall though he told them "If you want to live more freely, go to the Grand Amatas Empire and tell the guards at the capital that Daedalus told you to come."

With that he left them and began his journey all the way home, all the while sighing and mumbling quietly "How did I manage to do this again so quickly, Andromeda's gonna be pissed. Maybe I should get a few sets of those potions though, I was a bit cocky."